Linux Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Linux Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Which Linux distros do you have experience with?

1 4886

Why have you choosen such a combination of products?

2 4852

Which distro you prefer? Why?

IBM,

3 8105

Which tool would you use to update Debian / Slackware / RedHat / Mandrake / SuSE ?

2 7989

What does ?route? command do?

IBM,

7 19857

Display the Disk Usage of file sizes under each directory in currentDirectory ?

8 15380

Set the Display automatically for the current new user ?

3 10937

How shared memory are accessed if we have two processors trying to acquire the same region.

NetApp,

3 17376

Why do we have serial and parallel interface, which one was faster and why and when we should go for this interface.

NetApp,

4 14477

Say we have three threads T1, T2 and T3 which perform sequentially one after another is their any benefit of using thread over here rather than having a single process.

NetApp,

11 21745

What is the use of thread over process?

NetApp,

11 28583

What are the signals we have in Linux

HCL, NetApp,

3 12982

what is segmentation fault?

AdTel, NetApp,

11 38607

what is bus trap.

NetApp,

1 10680

What is the use of proc structure?

NetApp,

2 12937

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

Which type of boot occurs when the computer is already on, and you restart it without turning off the power.

1045

Is it possible to use shortcuts for a long pathname?

835

What are the advantages of arch linux?

853

Explain how you can view the text file using terminal?

763

What is the difference between user level thread and kernel level thread?

715

What is process id 1 in linux?

864

What are the various IPC mechanisms? Why is message passing costlier than semaphore?

1021

What is used to search files for specified words or patterns?

816

How do I download linux os?

786

How do you list contents of tar.gz and extract only one file?

858

What does chmod 755 do?

835

How do I get to root in linux?

987

What is Linux Shell? What is Shell Script?

900

Is linux mint free?

791

What is free linux?

1021

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